The Exchange Student
by Lubrican
Chapters : Prologue | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Epilogue
Epilogue
Jason was there for the ceremony, which was
conducted in both Russian and English.
Someone had leaked the information to the media, and a news crew was
there to film it. Molly wasn't impressed
with that idea, but Petra thought it was grand fun, and the two women had
become such close friends that Molly just tried to keep her face away from the
camera. She needn't have worried. The young cameraman couldn't keep his eyes
off of Nadia.
The wedding made the national news, and there were a
few editorials where pundits argued for or against the union. Some of those against it used politics, and
some used age, but it was all a flash in the pan. It made a ruckus in Victorville, but most folks
got a kick out of seeing their town on TV.
Further, it wasn't unusual in Victorville for girls to get married
young.
Or have fine, healthy, premature babies after their
marriage, either.
Of course, by the time that happened, the happy
couple had already graduated. Petra was
there for the birth, but this time the ticket was bought by her daughter, who
was employed as a consultant by half a dozen companies that were trying to
expand their markets into Russia. She
was astoinshed at how much American companies would pay her just for
translating documents, and helping them prepare contracts. She was happy about that, but the most
exciting thing in her life at that point was that she was only weeks away from
being awarded U.S. citizenship.
Ruth was working full time, and taking night
classes. He also took a few online
courses that were guaranteed to transfer, or his money would be refunded.
Two years later he was still taking online courses,
but now it was mostly for fun, because he was fully employed as a
house-husband, taking care of Olav, the son responsible for his marriage, and
twin girls named Elsa and Robin. Nadia
could do most of her work anywhere she had access to broadband, so she
breastfed all her children.
Occasionally she had to go to a conference somewhere, but the companies
always paid for everything, even having her picked up from the airport and
driven around town.
Nobody told her how valuable her services were. They paid her lots of money, though,
something she wouldn't understand for years.
To Nadia it was just a job ... a means to earn the money that let her
stay home with her husband and family and live well enough that people back
home in Russia would think she was an empress.
Once she was a citizen, her mother was given a work
permit, and thus allowed to live in America, where she was hired as a nanny.
For her own grandchildren.
Actually, though, it was a completely legitimate
job.
That's because somebody had to take care of the kids
while Nadia and Ruth tried to give her two or three more of them.
The End
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